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Struggling in Solidarity - Catholic Workers Return from Palestine

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:00pm

Jessica Reznicek and Julie Brown will share their first-hand accounts of the time they spent as international solidarity activists in the occupied West Bank.

Jessica and Julie were sent to Palestine by the Catholic Worker Rachel Corrie Project to be part of the Michigan Peace Team protective accompaniment project during the month of February.

Through slides and stories they will share stories of the Palestinian people; their courage & their resilience in the face of an oppressive military occupation.

From Julie’s blog, Feb. 8, 2013Just before noon, while the adult men went to pray, a member of thePalestinian Medical Relief Society (Our equivalent of an EMT)suggested that we walk up the hill to see where the march would begoing. As we got to the top we noticed a group of small boys engagedin a standoff with a line of Israeli soldiers and a military armoredtruck. I could not believe what was playing out before me. A smallgroup of school boys were facing off with grown men from one of thelargest armies in the world! The soldiers on the ground as well as alarge group of soldiers in the tree line on the hill to our right aboveus were dressed head to toe in full tactical gear carrying automaticweapons. They were there to block the route of the march. At onepoint a couple of the young boys picked up some small stones in theroad and threw them. These stones rarely hit anything but seemed tobe a way for the youth growing up in a life of occupation and war tosay "I'm here."

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